News and Events http://www.dickinson.edu/blog.aspx?blogid=139 2013-05-19T15:15:19.0666209Z en-US Earth Fest http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Earth-Fest/?blogid=139 Please feel free to join the Africana Studies Department, Saturday April 20, 2013, as we engage on a conversation with Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice and featured guest for Dickinson College's Earth Now annual Earth Fest celebration. This event will take place on Drayer's Porch at 1:00 pm.

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Please feel free to join the Africana Studies Department, Saturday April 20, 2013, as we engage in a conversation with Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice and featured guest for Dickinson College's Earth Now annual Earth Fest celebration. This event will take place on Drayer's Porch at 1:00 pm.

]]> Racing the Family Narrative: Black German Family Photography and the Stories Pictures (Won’t) Tell with Tina Campt http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Racing-the-Family-Narrative--Black-German-Family-Photography-and-the-Stories-Pictures-(Won’t)-Tell-with-Tina-Campt/?blogid=139 Tina Campt Professor, Barnard College Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013 Location: Althouse 106 Time: 7:00 p.m. This talk will address ??????????? Biography Dr. Tina Campt is Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College. Campt's research theorizes gendered, racial and diasporic formation in black communities in Germany, and Europe more broadly. She is the author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004), an oral history of Black Germans in the Nazi period that examines the mutual constitution of racial and gendered formation from the Weimar Republic to the postwar period. She has edited special issues of Feminist Review, Callaloo and small axe, and together with Paul Gilroy, co-edited the volume, Der Black Atlantik (2004). Her second book monograph explores early twentieth century family photography of Black European communities. Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (2012) examines the status of photographs in the process of historical interpretation. Engaging the burgeoning field of scholarship on affect, Image Matters uses affect to attend to how certain photographs move people, what the practice of making photos did for black sitters as individuals and family members, and what it allowed them to do and say about themselves. The book demonstrates how and why certain photographs ‘matter’, why they ‘register’ at multiple levels, as well as what those registers tell us about the cultural work of vernacular photography for diasporic communities. Professor Campt is the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the American Association of University Women, The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Social Science Research Council, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. Relevant Links: https://barnard.edu/headlines/image-matters-archive-photography-and-african-diaspora-europe http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/radical_history_review/v083/83.1campt.html

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"Racing the Family Narrative: Black German Family Photography and the Stories Pictures (Won't) Tell…"                                                                                                                                                   Tina Campt
Professor, Barnard College/Columbia University 

Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013
Location: Althouse 106
Time: 5:00 p.m. 

The German and Africana Studies Departments are hosting Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program Tina Campt of Barnard College/Columbia University next Thursday. Professor Campt will be giving a lecture titled "Racing the Family Narrative: Black German Family Photography and the Stories Pictures (Won't) Tell…" on Thursday, March 28 at 5 pm in Althouse 106. Professor Campt's visit is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Office of Diversity Initiatives, the Women's Center, American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Joyce Bylander, Special Assistant to the President for Institutional and Diversity Initiatives, and the Max Kade Foundation.

"Racing the Family Narrative: Black German Family Photography and the Stories Pictures (Won't) Tell…"                                                                                                                                              What historical 'truths' can we read in the visual archive of the African Diaspora in Germany? What narratives of nation, place and belonging do family photographs tell? What narratives do they challenge, dislodge or retell? This presentation uses family photography of Black Germans in the early twentieth century to tell an alternate narrative of race, nation and diaspora for the Black German community. In the process, it asks what we can learn by engaging the multiple truths of still images, and images of dwelling in diaspora.

Biography
Dr. Tina Campt is Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College. Campt's research theorizes gendered, racial and diasporic formation in black communities in Germany, and Europe more broadly. She is the author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004), an oral history of Black Germans in the Nazi period that examines the mutual constitution of racial and gendered formation from the Weimar Republic to the postwar period. She has edited special issues of Feminist Review, Callaloo and small axe, and together with Paul Gilroy, co-edited the volume, Der Black Atlantik (2004). Her second book monograph explores early twentieth century family photography of Black European communities. Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (2012) examines the status of photographs in the process of historical interpretation. Engaging the burgeoning field of scholarship on affect, Image Matters uses affect to attend to how certain photographs move people, what the practice of making photos did for black sitters as individuals and family members, and what it allowed them to do and say about themselves. The book demonstrates how and why certain photographs ‘matter’, why they ‘register’ at multiple levels, as well as what those registers tell us about the cultural work of vernacular photography for diasporic communities. Professor Campt is the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the American Association of University Women, The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Social Science Research Council, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.

Relevant Links:

https://barnard.edu/headlines/image-matters-archive-photography-and-african-diaspora-europe

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/radical_history_review/v083/83.1campt.html

]]> Africa’s Sources of knowledge in Ajami Scripts” with Dr. Fallou Ngom http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Africa’s-Sources-of-knowledge-in-Ajami-Scripts”-with-Dr--Fallou-Ngom/?blogid=139 Fallou Ngom Associate Professor, Boston University Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013 Location:Stern Center, Great Room Time: 7:00 p.m. This talk will address the myth of illiteracy in Islamized areas of Africa. It uncovers important sources of African knowledge written in the modified classical Arabic script known as Ajami. The event is sponsored by The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by Middle East Studies and the Departments of Africana Studies, History, and French and Italian. Biography (provided by the speaker) Dr. Fallou Ngom is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the African Language Program at the African Studies Center at BostonUniversity. His research interests include the interactions between African languages and non-African languages, the Africanization of Islam in the Sahel, and Ajami literatures, records of West African languages written in Arabic script. Relevant Links: http://www.theworld.org/2010/09/africa-ajami-writing/ http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/summer09/ajami/

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Fallou Ngom
Associate Professor, Boston University

Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Location:Stern Center, Great Room
Time: 7:00 p.m.

This talk will address the myth of illiteracy in Islamized areas of Africa. It uncovers important sources of African knowledge written in the modified classical Arabic script known as Ajami.

The event is sponsored by The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by Middle East Studies and the Departments of Africana Studies, History, and French and Italian.

Fallou Ngom Picture

Biography (provided by the speaker)
Dr. Fallou Ngom is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the African Language Program at the African Studies Center at BostonUniversity. His research interests include the interactions between African languages and non-African languages, the Africanization of Islam in the Sahel, and Ajami literatures, records of West African languages written in Arabic script.

Relevant Links:

http://www.theworld.org/2010/09/africa-ajami-writing/

http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/summer09/ajami/



]]> Sustainable Development in Mozambique http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Sustainable-Development-in-Mozambique/?blogid=139 Peter Bechtel ’81, director, Andorinha Azul Ambiental, a company specializing in sustainable development Ruth Mkhwanazi-Bechtel, program director, Vanderbilt University’s Friends in Global Health in Mozambique Sustainable Development in Mozambique Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m. For many years, Mozambique has been near the bottom of the UN Human Development Index, but recent discoveries of gas, coal, and mineral deposits have created opportunities for rapid economic development.  While the government places some importance on sustainability, there are ongoing problems related to transparency, top-down decision-making, urbanization and climate change. The event is sponsored by The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability Education, Career Center, Department of Religion, Office of Institutional and Diversity Initiatives, Department of International Business and Management, Health Studies, Department of Environmental Studies, Community Studies Center and the Departments of Africana Studies, International Studies, Earth Sciences and Economics. This event is also part of  The Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series and the faculty seminar series titled, Living in a World of Limits. Biographies Peter Bechtel ’81, a graduate of Dickinson College, traveled to Africa with the US Peace Corps. He met his wife, bought a farm, and eventually acquired Mozambican nationality. He has worked in the development field for more than 30 years in Southern Africa, in rural development, nature conservation, and climate change.  He has seen the  devastating effects of climate change on coastal communities in East Africa and is concerned about developing resistance and resilience mechanisms not only for ecosystems but for livelihoods as well. Peter Bechtel is an award winning ecotourism operator and has achieved the following: 1. Founder of three large national Parks/ Reserves.  The Quirimbas National Park, the Lake Niassa/Nyasa/Malawi Reserve, and the Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago Marine Reserve.  He organized the declaration of protected area status, wrote the management plans, and organized ranger teams and protection for both natural biota as well as traditional human livelihoods in all three of these areas. 2.  Founder of the CARE/WWF Alliance, a formal worldwide alliance between two developmental giants to work at the resource health/human well-being nexus. 3.  Launched a process that led to the establishment of the national BIOFUND to finance Mozambique’s Conservation areas. 4.  Won “World’s Best Destination” from the BBC in 2006 for our eco- lodge Quilalea Marine Sanctuary, together with two partners. 5.  Developed climate buffering strategies for marine and terrestrial areas, as well as community livelihoods. Ruth Mkhwanazi-Bechtel is the program director of the Community Care and Support Program, a program of Vanderbilt University’s Friends in Global Health in Mozambique. As program director, Ruth oversees development and implementation of community outreach efforts to overcome sociological barriers and increase community members’ access to health services for HIV & AIDS prevention and care. She has more than 20 years experience working in Mozambique and Swaziland on health care and health education, community development, community management of natural resources, food and livelihoods security, and women’s entrepreneurship. She received a master’s of science degree in Managing Rural Care form the University of London, Imperial College in 2005.    

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Peter Bechtel ’81, director, Andorinha Azul Ambiental, a company specializing in sustainable development
Ruth Mkhwanazi-Bechtel, program director, Vanderbilt University’s Friends in Global Health in Mozambique

Sustainable Development in Mozambique

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.

For many years, Mozambique has been near the bottom of the UN Human Development Index, but recent discoveries of gas, coal, and mineral deposits have created opportunities for rapid economic development.  While the government places some importance on sustainability, there are ongoing problems related to transparency, top-down decision-making, urbanization and climate change.

The event is sponsored by The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability Education, Career Center, Department of Religion, Office of Institutional and Diversity Initiatives, Department of International Business and Management, Health Studies, Department of Environmental Studies, Community Studies Center and the Departments of Africana Studies, International Studies, Earth Sciences and Economics.

This event is also part of  The Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series and the faculty seminar series titled, Living in a World of Limits.

Biographies

Peter Bechtel ’81, a graduate of Dickinson College, traveled to Africa with the US Peace Corps. He met his wife, bought a farm, and eventually acquired Mozambican nationality. He has worked in the development field for more than 30 years in Southern Africa, in rural development, nature conservation, and climate change.  He has seen the  devastating effects of climate change on coastal communities in East Africa and is concerned about developing resistance and resilience mechanisms not only for ecosystems but for livelihoods as well.

Peter Bechtel is an award winning ecotourism operator and has achieved the following:

1. Founder of three large national Parks/ Reserves.  The Quirimbas National Park, the Lake Niassa/Nyasa/Malawi Reserve, and the Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago Marine Reserve.  He organized the declaration of protected area status, wrote the management plans, and organized ranger teams and protection for both natural biota as well as traditional human livelihoods in all three of these areas.

2.  Founder of the CARE/WWF Alliance, a formal worldwide alliance between two developmental giants to work at the resource health/human well-being nexus.

3.  Launched a process that led to the establishment of the national BIOFUND to finance Mozambique’s Conservation areas.

4.  Won “World’s Best Destination” from the BBC in 2006 for our eco- lodge Quilalea Marine Sanctuary, together with two partners.

5.  Developed climate buffering strategies for marine and terrestrial areas, as well as community livelihoods.

Ruth Mkhwanazi-Bechtel is the program director of the Community Care and Support Program, a program of Vanderbilt University’s Friends in Global Health in Mozambique. As program director, Ruth oversees development and implementation of community outreach efforts to overcome sociological barriers and increase community members’ access to health services for HIV & AIDS prevention and care. She has more than 20 years experience working in Mozambique and Swaziland on health care and health education, community development, community management of natural resources, food and livelihoods security, and women’s entrepreneurship. She received a master’s of science degree in Managing Rural Care form the University of London, Imperial College in 2005.

 

 

]]> Celebrating Noah Pinkney http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Celebrating-Noah-Pinkney/?blogid=139 Along with guest speaker Corinthia Jacobs '11 and in celebration of Black History at Dickinson College, the Africana Studies Department will be honoring entrepreneur and activist Noah Pinkney on Friday, February 22, 2013 from 4:00-6:30pm at West Gate (Plaque ceremony) followed by a reception in the Ground Floor Lounge of Althouse. (Rain Location for Ceremony: Althouse 106). *Noah Pinkney (1846-1923) Noah Pinkney was born a slave in Frederick County, Maryland on December 31, 1846. He bravely fought in the Civil War after enlisting in the Union Army in Harrisburg, PA 1863. After the war, he moved to Carlisle, where he became known as “Pink” or “Uncle Noah.” In 1882, he helped to found a Freemasonry Lodge, which worked to organize Black citizens of Carlisle. As an entrepreneur, he sold food to Dickinson students. He sold these treats outside the gate near East College, as he was forbidden access to the campus in 1894. On the coldest of nights, he sorted to sell his treats from his home at 137 N. West St. Noah Pinkney exemplifies the resiliency and perseverance of ex-slaves who overcame adversity and continued to give back to their community.*

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Along with guest speaker Corinthia Jacobs '11 and in celebration of Black History at Dickinson College, the Africana Studies Department will be honoring entrepreneur and activist Noah Pinkney on Friday, February 22, 2013 from 4:00-6:30pm at West Gate (Plaque ceremony) followed by a reception in the Ground Floor Lounge of Althouse. (Rain Location for Ceremony: Althouse 106).

*Noah Pinkney (1846-1923)


Noah Pinkney Website Pic


Noah Pinkney was born a slave in Frederick County, Maryland on December 31, 1846. He bravely fought in the Civil War after enlisting in the Union Army in Harrisburg, PA 1863. After the war, he moved to Carlisle, where he became known as “Pink” or “Uncle Noah.” In 1882, he helped to found a Freemasonry Lodge, which worked to organize Black citizens of Carlisle. As an entrepreneur, he sold food to Dickinson students. He sold these treats outside the gate near East College, as he was forbidden access to the campus in 1894. On the coldest of nights, he sorted to sell his treats from his home at 137 N. West St. Noah Pinkney exemplifies the resiliency and perseverance of ex-slaves who overcame adversity and continued to give back to their community.*

]]> Ghana Mosaic Information Sessions: Remembering the Atlantic Slave Trade http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Ghana-Mosaic-Information-Sessions--Remembering-the-Atlantic-Slave-Trade/?blogid=139 This mosaic will explore the various ways in which the Atlantic Slave Trade is remembered, taught, and memorialized in Ghana, West Africa and Charleston, SC. Students will focus their individual and group research along three research themes: museums, monuments, and cultural memorialization. Students will travel to Ghana to explore the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the significance of the “slave coast” of West Africa. This region incorporated the slave forts of Cape Coast Castle and El Mina – two of the major sites for slave embarkations for the Americas from West Africa from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Additionally, students will travel to South Carolina to examine African survival in a New World context. They will discover not only the ways in which the Atlantic Slave Trade is commemorated in one of the major U.S. disembarkation sites of enslaved Africans, but they will also analyze how African culture is preserved at historic plantations, in Gullah/Lowcountry communities, and through material culture in the 21st century. Directors: Prof. Lynn Johnson (Africana Studies) and Joyce Bylander (Special Asst. to the President for Institutional and Diversity Initiatives) Information Sessions: Thursday, February 7, 2013 Noon–1 p.m. | Althouse Room 206 Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Noon–1 p.m. | Althouse Room 206 Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6–7 p.m. | HUB Sideroom 203 For more information contact the Department of Africana Studies (africana@dickinson.edu), Yoleidy Rosario (rosarioy@dickinson.edu) or call 717.245.1963. To sign up please click here.  

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This mosaic will explore the various ways in which the Atlantic Slave Trade is remembered, taught, and memorialized in Ghana, West Africa and Charleston, SC. Students will focus their individual and group research along three research themes: museums, monuments, and cultural memorialization. Students will travel to Ghana to explore the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the significance of the “slave coast” of West Africa. This region incorporated the slave forts of Cape Coast Castle and El Mina – two of the major sites for slave embarkations for the Americas from West Africa from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Additionally, students will travel to South Carolina to examine African survival in a New World context. They will discover not only the ways in which the Atlantic Slave Trade is commemorated in one of the major U.S. disembarkation sites of enslaved Africans, but they will also analyze how African culture is preserved at historic plantations, in Gullah/Lowcountry communities, and through material culture in the 21st century.

Directors:
Prof. Lynn Johnson (Africana Studies) and
Joyce Bylander (Special Asst. to the President
for Institutional and Diversity Initiatives)

Information Sessions:
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Noon–1 p.m. | Althouse Room 206

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Noon–1 p.m. | Althouse Room 206

Tuesday, February 26, 2013
6–7 p.m. | HUB Sideroom 203

For more information contact the Department of Africana
Studies (africana@dickinson.edu), Yoleidy Rosario
(rosarioy@dickinson.edu) or call 717.245.1963.

To sign up please click here.

 

]]> Sana Musasama: The Unspeakable Series http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Sana-Musasama--The-Unspeakable-Series/?blogid=139 Sana Musasama a New York Native, is an award winning artist and author. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the City University of New York in Ceramics and Education. She also recevied a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Alfred University in Alfred, New York. Throughout her career she has also served as a professor at New York institutions such as City College, John Jay College, and Hunter College. Exhibitions on her artwork have not only been a great success nationally, but have earned the merit to travel beyond the states to places sucha as Jamaica and Cambodia. An opening reception will be held on Monday, February 4 from 5.00pm-6.00pm at The Weiss Gallery 204. Sana Musasama's artist talk titled- My Journey: Art, Travel, Work and Social Justice will be held on Tuesday, February 5 from 5.30-6.30pm at Weiss 235. The Unspeakable Series exhibition of Sana Musasama’s work will be presented in the Weiss Gallery between February 4 – March 1, 2013.

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 Sana Musasama a New York Native, is an award winning artist and author. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the City University of New York in Ceramics and Education. She also recevied a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Alfred University in Alfred, New York. Throughout her career she has also served as a professor at New York institutions such as City College, John Jay College, and Hunter College. Exhibitions on her artwork have not only been a great success nationally, but have earned the merit to travel beyond the states to places sucha as Jamaica and Cambodia.

An opening reception will be held on Monday, February 4 from 5.00pm-6.00pm at The Weiss Gallery 204.

Sana Musasama's artist talk titled- My Journey: Art, Travel, Work and Social Justice will be held on Tuesday, February 5 from 5.30-6.30pm at Weiss 235.

The Unspeakable Series exhibition of Sana Musasama’s work will be presented in the Weiss Gallery between February 4 – March 1, 2013.

]]> The African American Movement Music: From R and B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and Obama's America http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/The-African-American-Movement-Music--From-R-and-B-and-the-Civil-Rights-Movement-to-Rap-and-Obama-s-America/?blogid=139 This presentation critically explores "African American movement music" from classic rhythm & blues through to contemporary rap and neo-soul. Each major form of African American popular music has, in many senses, served as a soundtrack for a broader African American popular movement or historical episode. Indeed, this presentation emphasizes, African American music is more than music. It is an often-overlooked repository of African American history, culture, politics, and inspiring democratic social visions which free-float throughout and appear to be even more pronounced in African American music between 1945 and Obama's presidency.Reiland Rabaka is an Associate Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Humanities Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also an Affiliate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program and a Research Fellow at the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA). He also holds graduate faculty appointments in the College of Music, School of Education, Department of Sociology, Department of Religious Studies, and Critical Theory Prof. Rabaka has published ten books, including Du Bois's Dialectics: Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory (2008); Africana Critical Theory (2009); Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization (2010); and Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement (2011). Date: November 29, 2012 Location: Weiss 235 Time: 7:00-8:00 pm

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This presentation critically explores "African American movement music" from classic rhythm & blues through to contemporary rap and neo-soul. Each major form of African American popular music has, in many senses, served as a soundtrack for a broader African American popular movement or historical episode. Indeed, this presentation emphasizes, African American music is more than music. It is an often-overlooked repository of African American history, culture, politics, and inspiring democratic social visions which free-float throughout and appear to be even more pronounced in African American music between 1945 and Obama's presidency.

Reiland Rabaka is an Associate Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Humanities Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also an Affiliate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program and a Research Fellow at the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA). He also holds graduate faculty appointments in the College of Music, School of Education, Department of Sociology, Department of Religious Studies, and Critical Theory Prof. Rabaka has published ten books, including Du Bois's Dialectics: Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory (2008); Africana Critical Theory (2009); Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization (2010); and Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement (2011).

Date: November 29, 2012

Location: Weiss 235

Time: 7:00-8:00 pm

]]> So I Majored in Africana Studies and Archaeology ... Now What? How I used my Dickinson education to get a job at Sotheby's http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/So-I-Majored-in-Africana-Studies-and-Archaeology-----Now-What--How-I-used-my-Dickinson-education-to-get-a-job-at-Sotheby-s/?blogid=139 So I Majored in Africana Studies and Archaeology ... Now What? How I used my Dickinson education to get a job at Sotheby's.   So what am I going to do when I graduate? Will I find stable opportunities with my major? I'm passionate about my studies, but how much of it will I actually use in the real world? If these kinds of questions are on your mind, then come join Dickinson graduate, Africana studies and archeology major Benjamin Hanbury-Aggs '11 as he shares his experiences and work at Sotheby's Art Auction House. Date: November 27, 2012 Location: Althouse 106 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm

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So what am I going to do when I graduate?

Will I find stable opportunities with my major?

I'm passionate about my studies, but how much of it will I actually use in the real world?

If these kinds of questions are on your mind, then come join Dickinson graduate, Africana Studies and Archeology major Benjamin Hanbury-Aggs '11 as he shares his experiences and work at Sotheby's Art Auction House.

Date: November 27, 2012

Location: Althouse 106

Time: 12:00-1:00 pm

]]> Beasts of the Southern Wild http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Beasts-of-the-Southern-Wild/?blogid=139 The Africana Studies Presents: Beasts of the Southern Wild - Drama/Fantasy (PG-13 - 93 Minutes)  Click here to view the movie trailer. Friday, September 28, 2012 7:30 P.M. Saturday, September 29, 2012 7:30 P.M. Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:30 P.M. Thursday, October 4, 2012 7:30 P.M. Friday, October 5, 2012 7:30 P.M. Saturday, October 6, 2012 7:30 P.M. A portion of the proceeds for the October 5 and 6 screenings will be donated to Cumberland Valley Habitat for Humanity. In a forgotten but defiant Louisiana bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl (Hushpuppy, played by Quvenshané Wallis) exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father (Dwight Henry) and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions. Hollywood on High is delighted to be able to bring you this superbly reviewed film by a first-time director (Benh Zeitlin) who is likely to garner an Oscar nomination. Beasts has already won four awards at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, including the critics' prize, and the Cinematography and Grand Jury prizes at Sundance 2012. *Sponsored by the Departments of Africana Studies, American Studies at Dickinson College and the Carlisle Theatre and Performing Arts Center*

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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild - Drama/Fantasy (PG-13 - 93 Minutes)

Click here to view the movie trailer.

  • Friday, September 28, 2012 7:30 P.M.
  • Saturday, September 29, 2012 7:30 P.M.
  • Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:00 P.M.
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:30 P.M.
  • Thursday, October 4, 2012 7:30 P.M.
  • Friday, October 5, 2012 7:30 P.M.
  • Saturday, October 6, 2012 7:30 P.M.

A portion of the proceeds for the October 5 and 6 screenings will be donated to Cumberland Valley Habitat for Humanity.

In a forgotten but defiant Louisiana bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl (Hushpuppy, played by Quvenshané Wallis) exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father (Dwight Henry) and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions. Hollywood on High is delighted to be able to bring you this superbly reviewed film by a first-time director (Benh Zeitlin) who is likely to garner an Oscar nomination. Beasts has already won four awards at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, including the critics' prize, and the Cinematography and Grand Jury prizes at Sundance 2012.

*Sponsored by the Departments of Africana Studies, American Studies at Dickinson College and the Carlisle Theatre and Performing Arts Center*

]]> Africana Studies Open House Fall 2012 http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Africana-Studies-Open-House-Fall-2012/?blogid=139 We welcome everyone with open arms to the Africana Studies Department annual Open House taking place September 29, 2012 from 3:30-5:00 pm in the student lounge on the ground floor of Althouse. As part of a co-sponsorship, we will be joined by the American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies Departments. This will be a great opportunity for students, parents and guests to meet department faculty and allow for more casual conversations regarding the majors and student opportunities. We look forward to seeing everyone soon.  

]]> 2012-09-28T12:06:19Z Javan Howard '11 profiled on the College website http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Javan-Howard--11-profiled-on-the-College-website/?blogid=139 To read more about alumni Javan Howard '11, please click here.

]]> 2012-03-22T09:24:00Z click here.]]> Remembering the Atlantic Slave Trade: Ghana, West Africa and Charleston, South Carolina Mosaic http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Remembering-the-Atlantic-Slave-Trade--Ghana,-West-Africa-and-Charleston,-South-Carolina-Mosaic/?blogid=139 Description This mosaic will explore the various ways in which the Atlantic Slave Trade is remembered, taught, and memorialized in Ghana, West African and Charleston, South Carolina. Students will focus their individual and group research along three themes museums, monuments,

]]> 2012-02-08T12:58:26Z Description This mosaic will explore the various ways in which the Atlantic Slave Trade is remembered, taught, and memorialized in Ghana, West African and Charleston, South Carolina. Students will focus their individual and group research along three themes: museums, monuments, and cultural memorialization. Students will travel to Ghana to explore the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the significance of the "slave coast" of West Africa. The region incorporated the slave forts of Cape Coast Castle and El Mina - two of the major sites for slave embarkations for the Americas from West Africa from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Additionally, students will travel to South Carolina to examine African Survival in a New World Context. They will discover no only the ways in which the Atlantic Slave Trade is commemorated in one of the major U.S disembarkation sites of enslaved Africans, but they will also analyze how African culture is preserved at historic plantations, in Gullah/Low County communities, and through material culture in the 21st century.

For more information or if you wish to apply please click here. 

]]> Africana Studies Program and Events http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Africana-Studies-Program-and-Events/?blogid=139 SPRING 2012 Benjamin Rush Discussion. More Information TBA January 19th, 2012 Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference February 23rd and 24th, 2012 Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto, will give keynote. More information TBA. E. Patrick Johnson will perform his one

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SPRING 2012

January
Monday 30th- Marvin Victor, Haitian writer and Filmmaker, Stafford Auditorium at 6:30pm


February
Friday 10th- MLK and the Millennial Generation: Commemorating Marting Luther King Jr. and Black History Month Events are as fallow:

12:30-1:30pm Panel discussion at Stern Great Room

4:00-5:00pm Speech Contest at Weis 235

7:00-8:00pm "An evening with King" Dr. Vernan Carraway perfomance at Mathers Theater

Thursday 23rd-Friday 24th: Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference. For more information please click here.

Thursday 23rd- Performance by E. Patrick Johnson, "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales." Weiss Rubendall Recital Hall Starting at 8pm.


March
Thursday 22nd- Love in Africa Film Series: "Woubi Cheri" playing at Althouse 106 from 7-9pm. Click here for more information about the film.

Thursday 29th: Love in Africa Film Series: "African Dreaming"4 shorts on love, playing at Althouse 106 from 7-9pm. Click here for more information about the film.



April
Thursday 5th- Love in Africa Film Series: "The President Has Aids" playing at Althouse 106 from 7-9pm Click here for more information about the film. 

Thursday 12th- Caribbean Cinema: Issues of Representation, Historical Development and Film Practices a presentation by Dr. Bruce Paddington, Film Studies, The University of the West Indies at Althouse 106 Starting at 7:00 p.m.

"Bruce Paddington, Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, is the Founder and Festival Director of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Director of the New World Film Centre, and the founder of the media production company Banyan Productions. He is an award winning filmmaker, having made over 500 films and television programmes, mainly on Caribbean culture. His 2006 documentary, “The Mennonites of Belize”, received the award as the best cultural and educational programme by the Caribbean Broadcasting Union in 2007". 
 

Thursday 19th" “Re-Discovering Esther Popel Shaw: The first black female graduate of Dickinson College" Panel discussion on Esther Popel Shaw's writing and legacy. Location TBA. Starting at 4:30pm.


Thursday 26th: Senior Research Presentations (For Africana Studies and Latino and Caribbean Studies) at Althouse 106 from 6-9pm. 




 

]]> Africana Studies Department Film Series http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Africana-Studies-Department-Film-Series/?blogid=139    “This is Nollywood" March 23, 2011 Althouse Auditorium 7 00 p.m. First came Hollywood, then Bollywood and now Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry, which released 2000 feature features in 2006 alone. Where else can you shoot a full length

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"LOVE IN AFRICA"

AFRICANA STUDIES FILM SERIES

"Woubi Cheri" playing at Althouse 106 from 7-9pm - Thursday March 22nd, 2012.

"Woubi Chéri is the first film to give African homosexuals a chance to describe their world in their own words. Often funny, sometimes ribald, but always real, this documentary introduces us to gender pioneers demanding their right to construct a distinct African homosexuality."Click here for more information about the film.

 

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"African Dreaming" 4 shorts on love, playing at Althouse 106 from 7-9pm - Thursday March 29th, 2012. Click here for more information about the film.


"Africa Dreaming was designed to give Africans a rare opportunity to speak directly to each other in their own words and images. It is also the first continent-wide media project in which South Africa played a leading role. Africa Dreaming may be a harbinger of what South Africa's advanced telecommunications infrastructure can contribute to the long-term goal of creating a regional film and television industry." 

 

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"The President Has Aids": playing at Athouse 106 from 7-9pm - Thursday April 5th, 2012 Click here  for more information about the film. 

"Jimmy Jean-Louis -- featured among the cast of the television phenomenon “Heroes,” -- stars as musician extraordinaire in denial, President, in this Haitian comedy-drama about the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Dao is the biggest movie star in Haiti, the self-proclaimed "President of Compas." He has women falling at his feet and men emulating him. He feels invincible-living the life of a rock star--sex, drugs and alcohol--except that he can no longer hide his illness which is threatening to derail his career. Despite pressure from his manager, he refuses to get tested for AIDS, turning instead to rituals, spells, and the church. At one of his concerts, he rescues Nina from the leery advances of Larieux, a wealthy and powerful businessman, who Nina's mother wants her to marry. As romance blossoms between Dao and Nina, who likes Dao despite his fame, not because of it, Larieux plots his revenge. Also starring Riccardo Lefeuvre and Jessica Geneus." 

 

 

 









   

 

 

 

 

 

]]> The Black Student Movement and the Early Roots of Africana Studies at Dickinson College http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/The-Black-Student-Movement-and-the-Early-Roots-of-Africana-Studies-at-Dickinson-College/?blogid=139 Dr. Komozi Woodard, Alum 71February 3, 2011Memorial Hall7 00 p.m. Reception immediately following program  

]]> 2011-01-11T12:32:36Z Dr. Komozi Woodard, Alum '71

February 3, 2011
Memorial Hall
7:00 p.m.

Dr. Woodard holds the Esther Raushenbush Chair in History at Sarah Lawrence College, where he teaches African American history, politics, and culture. His recent works emphasize the Black freedom movement and women in the Black Revolt. These titles include A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics, Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle, Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, and Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America

 During the time Dr. Woodard spent as a student at Dickinson College, he was the founder of African Students on Campus, a founding member of the Congress of African Students and co-taught a course entitled,  "Perspectives on Race".  

Dr. Woodard states that Dickinson College is where he began teaching and researching Africana Studies-Black Power Studies in 1968. His teaching and research at the college propelled him into his first meeting with the founders of the Black Arts Movement in Harlem.

Dr. Woodard's books are available in the Dickinson College Bookstore.

  Dr. Komozi Woodard 

]]> Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Central-Pennsylvania-Consortium-Africana-Studies-Conference/?blogid=139 Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference Franklin & Marshall College Whose Culture, Whose Development? Science, Culture & Development in Africa and Beyond April 8—9, 2011 This conference will bring together scholars, policymakers,religious leaders, and development practitioners in order to explore models

]]> 2010-11-23T12:56:25Z "Performing Memory, History and Identity in the Black World" February 23rd and 24th, 2012

Welcome to the Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference. This year our theme is "Performing Memory, History and Identity in the Black World". We welcome abstract submissions, especially from graduate students. We look forward to welcoming you to Dickinson College.

Increasingly, scholars are making connections between Africana Studies and Performance Studies, noting that both of these fields employ methodological approaches that lie beyond the scope of traditional disciplines in order to investigate and illuminate the complex identities, histories and memories of individuals and communities that have been historically marginalized or rendered invisible within mainstream academia. In “Black Studies and the Racial Mountain,” Manning Marable famously proposed that Black Studies should be descriptive, corrective and prescriptive, not only adding to the body of scholarship about black communities and reversing misrepresentations, but also challenging and transforming structures that perpetuate inequality within our societies. This stance resonates with Dwight Conquergood’s challenge that Performance Studies incorporate imagination, inquiry and intervention. This conference seeks to build upon the bridges that connect Africana Studies with Performance Studies, explore the varied and exciting approaches that scholars and activists employ in their work, and create a forum for discussing new directions and trends in the study of black subjectivity, history and identity. 

Please click here for more information. 

 

]]> Africana Studies Department Open House http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Africana-Studies-Department--Open-House/?blogid=139 Please join us on Saturday, October 30th from 11 00 12 00 for the Africana Studies Department's Open House. We are located in Althouse G level in the Africana Studies lounge area. Bring your family and friends all are welcome

]]> 2010-10-22T15:39:58Z Please join us on Saturday, Septmeber 24th, 2011 from 3:30 - 5:00 for our Open House. We are located in Althouse G-level in the Africana Studies lounge area. Bring your family and friends - all are welcome!

]]> Sonia Sanchez, award-winning poet-scholar-activist - February 19th, 2010 - Memorial Hall, Old West http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/africana-studies/Africana-Studies/Sonia-Sanchez,-award-winning-poet-scholar-activist---February-19th,-2010---Memorial-Hall,-Old-West/?blogid=139 Sonia Sanchez, poet, will be reading from her new poetry collection entitled  Morning Haiku  on Friday, February 19th at 8 00pm in Memorial Hall, Old West. The reading will be followed by a book signing.  Copies of Morning Haiku will be available

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 Sonia Sanchez, an award-winning poet-scholar-activist, will be reading from her new poetry collection entitled  Morning Haiku on Friday, February 19th at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall, Old West. The reading will be followed by a book signing.  Copies of Morning Haiku will be available for purchase.  This event is free and open to the public.

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